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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1900
Page
1
The funeral train bearing Gen Lawton arrives Fort Wayne at 7 10 AM as part of train No 18 two sections. The casket on an artillery caisson draped with flags is moved to the new Courthouse for viewing by a large crowd before proceeding to Indianapolis for state viewing at the Capitol.
A magazine of the Findlay Utro Glycerine Company two miles northeast of Lima exploded destroying the site. About 1,000 quarts of explosive detonated shaking the area. Ernest Guild of Portland Indiana was present with his team and the magazine was annihilated leaving a large ground hole.
Rebels seized a nine-cart supply column between Oram and Dinalupijan near Manila. A corporal and five privates of Company G Thirty-second Infantry were killed during the engagement. An escort of a sergeant and eleven mounted men pursued but suffered six more American deaths as insurgents fired from bushes, also killing two native drivers while a bridge abutment was weakened and the first cart tumbled into a creek.
Charles Frank of Carpenter Iowa kissed three young ladies at a Minnesota church social near the state line. Shortly after, he and the three women contracted smallpox, eight total cases with one death. Health officials ordered a quarantine.
A Ghent physician reports a 17 year old girl has eaten nothing since early November, totaling eighty days, yet remains alive though confined to bed and unable to take liquids. Locals call her a saint and pilgrimages to her home have begun, reflecting superstitious belief.
Henry Phipps Jr and John Walker consulting partners in Carnegie Steel closed a deal for 700 acres along the Monongahela River front adjoining Monongahela borough. The land title is in Mr Phipps name, acting for a new corporation to erect a mammoth steel plant costing about 5 million dollars.
Admiral Dewey indicated to Congressman Corliss of Michigan his intention to visit Detroit with Mrs Dewey during the early part of the summer if nothing prevents. The invitation was conveyed by Corliss on behalf of the Fellow Craft Club and supported by Detroit citizens.
Mrs. Elmer Jerkel died at the home of Mrs. Carrie Seymour in Peru after placing a revolver to her chest and firing. The woman, described as the wife of a railroad worker aged two, collapsed and died instantly. The incident occurred during a dining visit, and the exclamation Here goes nothing was reportedly uttered.
A special committee reports to the National Liberal Convention that 1 548 654 votes were polled in the national plebiscite and 1 456 482 favored Gen Diaz as presidential candidate. The notice is dated Fort Wayne Indiana February 13 and signed Secret Service.
The record lists a range of events including C Bredman selling his NYSE seat, Thomas Eggleston's will leaving 1 million to the Legion of Honor, a cotton broker Simon Fatman’s suicide at Mount Sinai, and Assemblyman Lim Sullivan proposing to ban football in the New York Assembly. Also noted are a deadly Lewisboro fire killing four children, a comet discovery report, Harvard economist Dr Charles Dunbar’s death, a Cramp shipyard strike settlement, coal magnate Alexander Dunsmuir’s death, banker Charles Cole’s embezzlement case, Albert Fulton’s death, Ida de Vay naming his father in a divorce suit, a major fire at a New York antique dealer, a fatal airshaft accident in New York, a Philadelphia murder suicide, and Maj William Hastings’s prison sentence.
Fire destroys the business portion of Winfield Kay causing 125000 in losses. A Cleveland appendicitis club forms. Miss Lydia Cox starves herself in Kokomo. Findlay Carriage Co plant burned, losses 35000 with 13000 insured. Roby horses killed in stable fire. Frost dies in St Louis at 48. Ireland dies in St Paul after operation shock. Erie road collision near Akron kills engineer Diday and injures a fireman. Nine cities rejoin grand trotting circuit. Detroit meets July 16.
A coalition movement seeks to merge auto and bike interests with a capital of 200 million. The Great Northern Railway grievance committee accepted terms. no strike is planned. W age and immigration details follow with Canadian and American figures. Bradstreet notes weather influenced trade while stating weekly wheat and corn exports.
Rear Admiral Bradford estimates a Pacific cable cost at 10 million dollars. A bill seeks 4 million to buy the Danish West Indies. The foreign affairs committee agrees a 1,740,476 dollar consular appropriation. Secretary May proposes raising Christiania Norway to consul general. An American surveying party led by Rear Admiral Walker surveys a Panama route. A telegram from Griffth Browneville reports schooner Meclunis wrecked off the Mexican coast with seven lives lost. January coinage at U S mints totals 14,053,431 dollars with gold 11,515,000 silver 2,304,101 and minor coins 174,270. Tracewell rules Brazos Santl harbor appropriations balance at 57,476 dollars.
In Texas the ngo harbor site remains available for improvements deemed expedient by the War Department. Red Cross nurses who served in the Spanish American war form a committee urging Congress to pass a bill to employ women in military hospitals with permanent status and proper qualifications.
Chicago cattle bid ranges from common to prime 3.00 to 6.75, hogs shipping grades 3.00 to 5.25, wheat No 2 red 6 to 67 cents, corn No 2 80 to 32 cents, oats No 2 23 to 24. similar figures appear for Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and New York with varied cattle hog and sheep values and grain quotes. The report catalogs regional price spectra for cattle hogs sheep and staple crops.
The Senate debated Philippine questions with Pettigrew and Allen clashing over Aguinaldo’s documents and Secretary Gage, while House moves focused on Indian appropriation bills and expansion opponents. Bills reimbursing Wyoming for Yellowstone protection and expanding the Choctaw Gulf Railroad passed. a key Jefferson-era Moon eclipse funding dispute and an Indian school contracting issue were noted.
Henry J. Fitzgerald trunk factory in Chicago burned with losses estimated at 75 000 dollars. A large Finnish exodus follows Russian usurpations. Bubonic plague reportedly introduced to Honolulu via merchandise from the Orient.
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